Having your head in the clouds and spending a lot of time in planes to travel thousands of kilometers would be detrimental to your health.
Researchers from the universities of Surrey (UK) and Lund and Linnaeus (Sweden) conducted a meta-analysis of scientific studies dealing with the risks of hypermobility.
The conclusions of the study reveal that traveling a lot by plane increases fatigue and the risk of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), and also promotes an increase in stress and irritability, as well as sleep disorders. This study also reveals that the jet lag responsible for intestinal disorders and sleep would also promote faster aging of cells and weaken the immune system. We also learn that packing and unpacking, being often in airports, waiting, managing schedules would increase stress and anxiety. It would also reinforce the isolation of travelers. But flying regularly would also have other consequences.
A higher risk of melanoma
The intensive use of this means of transport had already been pointed out by researchers at the University of California (United States) in a study published in September 2014, in the medical journal Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dermatology. She revealed that the airline pilots were also more affected by melanoma. The results of this survey correlated the fact of working as an airline pilot or flight crew and the risk of developing melanoma, a skin cancer. Indeed, people who work in airplanes are twice as likely to be affected by this pathology as other professions. Planes fly at an altitude of 9,000 meters, where the intensity of ultraviolet rays (scientifically responsible for skin cancer) is very high.
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